From: Jing Xue <jingxue@digizenstudio.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:56:55 GMT
Subject: Re: Howto request: going home in the middle of something?
Message-ID: <20071023135655.x6g6mln1j4880wog@intranet.digizenstudio.com>
In-Reply-To: <200710221044.24191.wielemak@science.uva.nl>


Quoting Jan Wielemaker <wielemak@science.uva.nl>:

> Thanks for the replies.	 I think I can live with something like this
>
> 	<work, in the middle of something>
> 	$ git checkout -b home
> 	$ git commit
> 	$ git checkout master
> 	<arriving at home>
> 	$ git jan@work:repo fetch home:home	(using ssh)
> 	$ git checkout home
> 	<continue editing>
> 	$ git commit --amend
> 	$ git checkout master
> 	$ git merge home
> 	$ git -d home
> 	$ git commit
> 	$ git push
> 	<arriving at work>
> 	$ git -d home
> 	$ git pull
>
> Its still a bit many commands and you have to be aware what you are
> doing for quite a while, but it does provide one single clean commit
> message, doesn't change the shared repo until all is finished and allows
> to abandon all work without leaving traces.

What does the extra branch gain for us here? That's not a rhetorical  
question, I'm actually curious to learn, because I always just commit,  
switch to another computer, pull, and reset HEAD^.

Thanks.
-- 
Jing Xue